Updated..read below: It is great to be flying on Super Bowl…no traffic to LAX and then empty lines at the airport check-in as well as an empty plane. But then, as I am flying to New York, I am missing the game…more precisely, the hoopla and ads on TV.
I can, with some creativity, follow almost all of the game without actually watching it. Here’s how I am trying to do it: when I am on the way to LAX, my Sprint service (that’s actually a trial loaner from the Sprint people…I am supposed to try out their Sprint Power Vision high-speed network for six months) has live TV. It does not have ABC (the network for Super Bowl), but it does have NFL Network, and also Fox Sports.
Then, when I reach the airport, I can actually switch to live TV on my laptop..I have a Media Center PC at home and have Orb Networks‘ software installed on it. So from my laptop I can actually log onto my home TV and watch, well, ABC and anything else.
Then, I’m flying Song, the Delta-operated JetBlue rival, which has DishTV on it. Well,the lineup doesn’t have ABC, but it has ESPN. So that takes care of the whole trip until I land in NYC.
And then, while in the taxi from JFK to the hotel in midtown, I can log back into Sprint TV, and watch the commercials I missed, the only thing I care about in the whole Super Bowl experience.
So there you have it: how-to-watch/catch-Super Bowl-when- you- don’t-really- care- about- it- and- are- on- the- road- but- still- want- to- watch- it- for- the- heck- of- it…
Updated: Well, it didn’t work…the satellite TV on board Song had a hiccup and didn’t work for 4 hours out of 5. At LAX, the T-Mobile hotspot was very spotty, so Orb didn’t work. The most reliable, suprisingly, was the Sprint TV connection…the screen was tiny, but hell, the connection worked…
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